Malaysian literature - among vegetables. what does this poem mean? how to write an essay,4-5pages?

Question

among vegetable

i enter the market,

happy as a young wife,

discovering villages and orchards,

gardens and forests,

shallow marshes, the sago valleys

all transported bu the dawn gardener,

with all the fragrance and sap of earth.

the market is leafy bush,

its leaves are the dew of life,

the mist is still - clutching to its veins.

at the head of the junction aunt inai

in her blouse, as black as noon,

is queen over her cabbage subjects.

round, shadowy green, white as coconut milk,

its leaves are brittle on the teeth of my memory.

grandma runduk tatau wers a head - band,

her dress as old as herself,

she smile with her eyes,

swallowing her sweet betel mis

she arranges the ferns,

taken form the hill behind her hut.

as an attentive carver

she has few words

only the ferns sell themselves

with their salad delicacy and colour.

the kerdas' skin is brown and smooth,

a jering is split and put out in the sun,

on a tall heap,

and the petai, as large as gamelan cymbals,

is arranged on a thick green board - all these i mix into a salad in my memory's appetite

as my ancestors in the forest,

thirty thousand years ago.

and this is the ginger, softly yellow

curved as a baby in the cold,

its fine roots hoarding its mud,

its pungent fragrance creeping

all along the market lane.

the sweet potato, copper red,

gathered in its basket world, are surrendered

to the morning sun, i make cakes form their tubers,

cucur badak with shrimps,

cucur keria with holes,

vegetable in coconut soup, the kedah sweetmeat

and i cook it, deep fried.

beside it is the purple yam,

fat in the marshes, under the skies and clouds,

water refines its deep texture,

clears it from its poison,

light green, cut and bundled.

and all the shoots along the markets,

tubers, the cashews, mengkudu are full bodied over the leaves

yam - if i go to heaven,

this would be my diet,

at a great banquet,

and i shall never be full.

and here sits a gentleman from sarawak,

with gold teeth and proud ears,

his face is calm and awashed with smiles,

he sells the scarlet jerangau,

as crimson as the centipede,

uprooted from his village's swamp,

its roots are for diabetes,

and antidote for alcohol.

that is nature's market,

for nature is transported here.

Answer 1

I don't think it should be difficult to writeandessay of five pages with this poem. The whole multi-coloured scene is front of us. The poet describes in detail all that is seen in the busy market. As usual , the theme fo the poem is expressed in the last two lines.

that is nature's market,

for nature is transported here.

I think you only need to explain the whole poem in prose and expand your imagination..

The simplicity of nature , and all her children live alife full of life and joy . We are among Nature in her miriad mood. She is all clad in green,and red and crimson and scarlet. Be it the old lady whosells vegetable or the old man who sells his recipe and speciality.

Elaborate like I am doing now and you will have your five pages !

By Among vegetable is meant , live richly and fruitfully among the varied moods of Nature.